Quotes by Gordon Brown

“I think thats a bit unfair. Im a father with a 2-year-old child and I feel pretty young, actually.”

“There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe.”

“We spend more on cows than the poor.”

“Im a father; thats what matters most. Nothing matters more.”

“Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.”

“Couldnt we sponsor Bros not to get back together?”

“It is time for Europe and the US to negotiate away their differences.”

“Europe and America should go to Hong Kong with a common position that by 2010 we will eliminate export subsidies, we will reduce the tariffs that are being charged and we will open our markets finally to developing countries,”

“Europe should now respond positively and enthusiastic to the American offer ... about the elimination of export subsidies and the reduction of tariffs,”

“What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we dont get a proper trade agreement in Hong Kong,”

Im a father thats what matters most. Nothing matters more.

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

Turing was a quite brilliant mathematician, most famous for his work on breaking the German Enigma codes. It is no exaggeration to say that, without his outstanding contribution, the history of the Second World War could have been very different.

I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower.

Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms as race or gender or sexuality.

Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.

I have to say that if our global alliances are going to be alliances with Hezbollah and Hamas and Hugo Chavezs Venezuela and Vladimir Putins Russia, there is absolutely no chance of building a world-wide alliance that can deal with poverty and inequality and climate change and financial instability, and weve got to face up to that fact.

I had to deal with terrorist finance. And we had to, if you like, ensure that the accounts of people who were guilty of terrorist finance or using their accounts for terrorist finance were closed down. So we had to do asset freezing.

The patriotism in Britain comes from us being a leader. On jobs, on tax havens, on workers rights, on the environment. We can be leading Europe... and it will be to the benefit of every British citizen.

I believe that our vote is both a public duty and a sacred trust.